Tuesday, March 20, 2007

t-shirt about job moving to India and all they got was a lousy shirt

Apparently there are a lot of t-shirts being sold that says "My job just moved to India and all I got was this lousy shirt". (see next post about book with similar title) Apparently, Yamini Narayanan, an Indian-born 35-year-old with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oklahoma was interviewed by a newspaper reporter. After graduation, she had worked for a U.S. computer company in Virginia and had recently moved back to Bangalore with her husband to be closer to family. When she was asked how she felt about the outsourcing of jobs from her adopted country, America, to her native country, India, she responded with a revealing story: "I just read about a guy in America who lost his job to India and he made a T-shirt that said, `I lost my job to India and all I got was this [lousy] T-shirt.' And he made all kinds of money." Only in America, she said, shaking her head, would someone figure out how to profit from his own unemployment. And that, she insisted, was the reason America need not fear outsourcing to India: America is so much more innovative a place than any other country.

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